Detailed architecture and implementation of a smart network in aplatform based on the Internet of Things

The customer domain of the smart grid naturally blends with smart home and smart building systems, buttypical proposed approaches are “distributor-centric” rather than “customer-centric,” undermining useracceptance, and are often poorly scalable. To solve this problem, we propose a detailed architecture and animplementation of a “last-meter” smart grid—the portion of the smart grid on customer premises—embedded in an internet-of-things (IoT) platform. Our approach has four aspects of novelty and advantageswith respect to the state of the art: ۱) seamless integration of smart grid with smart home applications in thesame infrastructure; ۲) data gathering from heterogeneous sensor communication protocols; ۳) secure andcustomized data access; and ۴) univocal sensor and actuator mapping to a common abstraction layer onwhich additional concurrent applications can be built.

Keywords:

Demand side management , internet of things , power meter , smart grid.